I wouldn't phrase it like that exactly, I think a lot of comedies need a season or two of "breaking in" and then reach their full stride from the third season or so onwards and can be around the same level then for years. If you notice characters are often somewhat different in the first season before they settle into their role.
Naturally over the years comedies can start running out of material, actors reach different stages in their lives, a sense of having done it all before/monotony, and so the quality can go down and then it's cancelled. Some British comedies had this idea of going out on a high, which I don't believe was the right way at all.
Make sure to check out "the green green grass" its following the events of OFAH, a sequal spin off sort of thing with boyice and his wife.
i still havent been able to watch rock and chips yet, no where is uploading it free lol.
James Buckley was in Rock and Chips, and the creators of his most famous show, The Inbetweeners, went on to create a BBC Two sitcom called The First Team which again only lasted one, six-episode season.
Some of the OFAH specials done in the last few years of its run were a bit ropey to be honest. Should've quit when they were ahead really.
OTOH Rock and Chips was interesting, would have liked to see another series or two of that but it wasn't to be.
It can die a natural death soon enough. They do a letter of the alphabet every year, and are on 'U' at the moment. 5 more left.
sounds like alot of the kids challange based shows that already exist, well minus ireland and alcohal parts. Perhaps your idea + putting celebritties as the contestants. Now thats something i can imagine people wanting to see the celebs get mashed lol.
i remember episodes of various kids gameshow/physical challange/obstical course things like the likes of crystal palace, raven, jungle run, that sort of thing, and loving it when adults come onto those shows as contestants and absolutely dominate blowing through all of the challanges and ruining the game. Sometimes contestants are dumb do and lose to kids or get locked inside of that big fat golden buddha thing.
Very funny now that i look back on it.
i think your idea is a really good one, perhaps we could add 2 commentators to roast the celeb contestant, or have 1 on their side and the other on the audiences side mocking them in a jokey way.
Do you know what we need? A TV gameshow where contestants get mashed regularly. Something like Takeshi's Castle or Wipeout, but with an Irish flavour. With games like having to get past a narrow footbridge while the opposing throws soccer balls at you form 20 yards to knock you off, and other such obstacles.
Go around to the various colleges and get volunteers per episode, give them a few drinks beforehand and let the madness ensue.
I think first dates is still worth watching as it has different types of people on it some boring some awful some charming .dancing with the stars Ireland should be called dancing with random actors
I can see no point in The voice now that anyone with any singing talent can put a video on TikTok or YouTube
I think the masked singer is mainly watched by kids who think the costumes are funny
I presume anyone that watches fair city is over 50 and has only saorview channels
Rte is like the bbc a public service tv station they have to make news and current affairs programs
Someone must be watching them otherwise why do EastEnders Coronation street random soap opera,s still exist
British bake off is a well made program with a good cast ,judges and presenters who can be funny sometimes and you do need some talent to get on the program
Neighbours was good in the 80s the new version looks awful
oi! now just what exactly is your game!? any more of that carry on and i'll be getting ghandi's revenge! that ruby did'nt go down so well last night.
although at the time it went down a treat as it happens
Only Fools is one of the few comedies that got better as it went on, Blackadder the same, Yes Minister as well.
Then you'd Fawlty and the UK office which left it at the perfect 2 seasons.
"But you started it".
"No, you did, yous invaded Poland".
Lovely jubbly! you know it makes sense.
it's like my mom used to always say, he who dares wins!
Cushty!
its one of my most favorite shows, please do come back and talk about i after watching it. i would love to see some discussion about it
Qi, now there's a candidate for a mercy killing.
The kardashions like feck off its all scripted anyway
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Name:
Steve Fannyhead
Specialist subject:
DJ Assault
Your time begins.. now
Complete the name of DJ Assault's most well known song, Ass and...
Titties
Correct
In that song, what designer label does he describe the "big booty bitches" as wearing?
Guess
What cleaning solution does DJ Assault suggest that "stanking ass bitches" should use?
Soap and water
What compound adjective does DJ Assault use in relation to impecunious hoes?
Broke-ass
Where does DJ Assault suggest that freaky-dancin' hoes should shake their shít?
On top of my dick
What action *bwap bwap bwap* I've started so I'll finish, what action does he suggest will happen to those taking part in the previous question?
Cumming
Correct.
Mr Fannyhead you have answered six questions and no passes.
I'd read somewhere that they'd banned a few topics like Fawlty Towers or Only Fools because they became over used.
yes, but why? only fools horses has alot of funny moments and both of those shows you've mentioned have become cultural icons in their respective countries. Comedy does't have to be intelligent, it just has to be funny. No Awareness of societies problems is needed. Comedy is meant to be an escape from all that.
Right. Knowing things by itself obviously does not make you intelligent or informed. It just means you have a good memory and have spent time on that subject. Mastermind and Eggheads etc., always imply more than just a good memory but a very high intelligence.
Knowing things that are relevant in society and common interest is a sign of intelligence and awareness of the world sure, not just any old thing. You could argue that knowing some things show more a LACK of intelligence and awareness of the world because that's what you have been occupying your time with. The intelligent and informed of society would generally fail a test on some tiktok etc. terminology I'm sure. Much as I love them, Only Fools and Horses/Father Ted specialist Mastermind subjects is really just taking the piss. Those are shows we try to AVOID rewatching surely.
Not really a show as such but Lottie Ryan and her showbiz news.
Only there in the first place because of her her father was.
stick a pony in me pocket! i'll fetch the suitcase from the van! cuz if you want the best ones, but you don't ask questions, then BROTHER! I'M YOUR MAN!! cuz where it all comes from is a mystery, like changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea.
But here's the one that's driving me berserk, how do only fools and horses work?
Mastermind has gone to hell since the chosen specialist subject was dumbed down.
Much better when the subjects were the likes of The Duke of Buckingham 1592 to 1628 than now when it's Only Fools and Horses.
Finished Fear the walking dead this year. The original series last year. Will probably not be tuning in for any of the three (!?!) spin off series that are in production.
University Challenge.
It was great for a long time as a kind of self-parody of the "intellectual classes" and people competing to know absurdly arcane knowledge, that goes on at universities and beyond, that I have to believe must have become a least a little bit self-aware at some point surely.
Jeremy Paxman worked because of his accent and his posture and everything about him. The queen's english high faluting talk, a stick so far up his ass. It was hilarious. god help me for saying this but Kevin Myers also produced the proper effect, in possibly the only job that man could ever do right.
Now in keeping with the times they've gone woke. Here's the new presenter, and it just doesn't work anymore as a package, for me anyway. It's not funny anymore.
Don't you diss throwdown and sewing bee. They are not anywhere close to those other shows.
Celebrity Baking on Ice while Dancing with the Stars doing a Pottery Throwdown in a Minature House for an all singing Sewing Bee.
Utter sheeite.
The idea that people would actually try to cook the recipies they saw on TV went out with Delia.
They moved on to flogging "books of the series" with the recipes, but people bought them and didn't cook them either (as if you could get half the ingredients anyway)
It's just food porn really.
They're still shite though.
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